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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 7 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent | 11 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2006-08-11 Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> + + * tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent: Too many (losing) systems trigger the + failure that this test checks for (stat/dirent inode mismatch at + a mount point), so continue to give a diagnostic about the failure, + but don't actually count it as a failure. + 2006-08-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> * ABOUT-NLS: Update from gettext 0.15. diff --git a/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent b/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent index 2e0c0282d..048ba5fc4 100755 --- a/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent +++ b/tests/ls/stat-vs-dirent @@ -46,7 +46,16 @@ while :; do echo "$0: test failed: $t/$file: d_ino($d_ino) != st_ino($st_ino)" 1>&2 echo "$0: This may indicate a flaw in your kernel or" \ "file system implementation." 1>&2 - fail=1 + echo "$0: This flaw won't impact coreutils, but it may well" + "affect other tools," + echo "$0: so you should report it to your operating system vendor." 1>&2 + + # This test fails too often, and we don't want to be distracted + # with reports, since the code that could be affected by the losing + # behavior (pwd and getcwd) works around any mismatch. + # So do continue to issue the warning, but don't count it as a + # real failure. + # fail=1 break fi fi |